Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays, and I enclose the word in inverted commas because the book is in fact crowded with theories which are carefully to be distinguished from the stuff of doctoral theses. Mr. Van Doren's comment on Falstaff's style is a case in point: "(Falstaff) being old and fat, he is short of breath and so must be brief of phrase . . . He has made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief...
...fifth day the fat was in the fire. Onetime roundhouse sweeper Walter Chrysler, who had left the presidency of Buick ($500,000 a year) to retire at 44 from an industry that wouldn't let him quit, who had later founded blazing Chrysler Corp. on the ashes of the dying Maxwell-Chalmers fire, had agreed to buy Dodge. The price suited Walter Chrysler, right down to the ground: $170,000,000 in new Chrysler stock. Without turning over a penny of cash Chrysler Corp. had taken over all the floor space and forge and foundry facilities it needed...
...echoing rotunda of the U. S. Capitol, when the last creaking footstep of the final tourist has died away, when the Capitol police unbutton collars and open night-school lawbooks, and the fat rats begin their soft scuttling around the old statues-then, says legend, the great ghosts of the U. S. past meet for nightly debate over the day's issues. One sweet autumn night last week those historic phantoms had a new historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed...
...satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...
...fumbled with that for a time, Berlin sent its version: that another British ship, the Browning, had been spared by the U-boat commander to care for the Royal Sceptre's crew. Later, the Royal Sceptre crew turned up safe in Bahia, Brazil. Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under toppers; that English women are adopting a new helmet hairdo...